SUMMARY:

• Over 11 Years of experience in the IT Industry with over 6 years of progressive experience in Software Quality Assurance across various industry domains - Airlines, Telecommunications, Retail, e-Commerce and e-Learning
• Hands-on Experience within various phases of the Software Testing Lifecycle including Test Planning, Test Design, Test Execution, Reporting and Test coordination
• Experience in various types of testing such as Functional testing, Regression Testing, Exploratory Testing, GUI Testing, Compatibility Testing of Web Applications, RWD, Mobile, Client-Server and packaged applications. Experience with Test Automation including development of test scripts and Agile software development.
• Well-versed with all stages of Software Development and Software Test Life Cycle and defect life cycle, involved in developing test plans, creation of test cases, execution of test cases and logging defects using tools such as HP ALM, JIRA, Rally and others
• Telecom SME with experience and expertise in technologies LTE, CDMA, GSM, GPRS, UMTS, IMS technologies and RF tools like LLDM, TEMS, INVEX, AGILENT, ACT, Spectrum Tracker Wind catcher and MapInfo
• Deploying and optimizing LTE networks, trial networks, developing and executing test methods and effectively testing all necessary aspects of pre-Customer ready products. Excellent understanding of Access Technologies
• Strong Inter-personal skills, quick learner and result driven individual
• Adept in working with multi-vendor, geographically distributed Agile teams while ensuring effective coordination among teams.
• Experience building Metrics and Measurement frameworks including dashboards to present to leadership

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 2003, 2008, 2012, XP, Vista, 7

Application Stack: Web, RWD, Thick Client, Thin Client and Web Services

Mobile: iOS and Android

Database: SQL, MySQL and Oracle

Defect Tracking: JIRA, HP QC - ALM, Rally, Bugzilla

Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber and HP QTP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Test Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved with all aspects of software (QA) processes, which included test planning, test execution and test case review and executing test scripts.
• Preparing the Master Test plan, Test Strategy, Test Data plan documents, attend Integration meetings with Technical leads and SME’s of upstream and downstream applications for sign-off.
• Participated in knowledge transfer sessions to understand and analyze business requirements specification document, build test scenarios based on the specs and build requirement traceability matrix for easier tracking downstream
• Explored the application (and vendor tools) and reviewed requirement documentation to gain functional knowledge
• Conducted functional testing, retesting and regression testing and browser compatibility testing
• Supported End-users with Production issues and provided training to End users
• Reporting / Logged defects in JIRA, Clearquest and ACSP and worked in conjunction with Dev team on Defect closure and retesting.
• Participated in defect review meetings and daily interaction with developers, implementation and deployment teams to track the defects to closure.
• Build metrics and dashboards to report status to leadership teams on a weekly basis.
• Actively participate in Sprint Review, retrospective and planning phases providing prioritization of test cases in active Sprint cycles.

Confidential, Irving, TX

Test Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• End-to-end testing
• Explored the application (and vendor tools) and reviewed requirement documentation to gain functional knowledge
• Prepared test scenarios and identified Test Conditions to identify the network related issues such as accessibility, retainability and connectivity
• Build Test Plan and assist with Test Design and review test scenarios and test cases
• Analysis of neighbor relations and implementation of corrections and performed functional testing and exploratory testing during various phases of the deployment
• Perform root-cause analysis of defects and issues
• Performed regression testing and retesting of the defect fixes, recommend and implement parameter changes to improve performance and prepare Cluster status reports
• Participated in defect review meetings and daily interaction with developers, implementation and deployment teams to track the defects to closure
• Build metrics and dashboards to report status to leadership teams

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved with all aspects of software (QA) processes, which included test planning, test execution and Test case review
• Participated in knowledge transfer sessions to understand and analyze business requirements specification document, build test scenarios based on the specs and build requirement traceability matrix for easier tracking downstream
• Prepared test scenarios and identified test conditions
• Build detailed test cases and prepare master test data requirement checklist
• Test Execution
• Reporting / Logged defects in TFS defect tracking tool
• Conducted functional testing, retesting and regression testing and browser compatibility testing
• Participated in all aspects of testing including functional, regression, UAT testing
• Supported End-users with Production issues and provided training to End users

Confidential

Global Trials Engineer

• This role is the primary presales role and is an interface between Ericsson region and BCAM responsible for network and product support issues
• Provide technical support services related to the deployment (Build, Test and Integration) and installation of Ericsson products and solutions
• Perform problem definition/reproduction and work with other NTS, Global Product Support and Design groups to resolve product defects as appropriate
• Provide Testing support for Core elements across customer bearing, revenue generating networks
• Manage moderately complex software patch testing and applications. Provide first level assistance for trouble resolution during maintenance activities
• Assist to review software/vendor documentation to ensure feature functionality requirements are delivered to perform interoperability testing
• Develop and execute test methods for pre-customer ready products and minimize downtime
• Present technology to customer audience, and communicate recommendations with Account and R&D
• Successfully demonstrated test cases showing the Basic Function Tests, Radio Access Network Performance and Handoff (Inter-technology) scenarios
• Successfully executed Test cases demonstrating Peak Throughputs, Average Throughputs, Reverse Link Quantum efficiency gain Latency, Handoffs and Compatibility with other devices and networks
• Presenting Joint Test case plan, Methodology, Load fixes and detailed analysis of Test Case Results
• Supported in the Voice Quality Testing, measuring the In-call Latency for DO and PSTN calls, VoIP Sector Capacity Estimation tests and evaluating the Handoff Performance of the network

Confidential, Plano, TX

Associate RF Engineer

Responsibilities:

• AGILENT and TEMS cluster drives for UMTS Network Deployment between different sites to verify/check for Scrambling codes, RSSI, transmitted and received powers, throughput
• Post processing of drive data with MapInfo including extracting required network performance indicating parameters from drive log files into a MapInfo tab files. Creating MapInfo thematic
• Coordinating drive test teams. Site auditing, creating map routes, exporting data through export wizard using Agilent. Providing continuous technical support and troubleshooting to drive test teams